After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life. In prose that could... more...

? Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal?.O?Neill could be our generation?s Jim Thompson.? ? James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning ?Tony O?Neill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels.? ? Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart From... more...

After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life. In prose that could... more...

? Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal?.O?Neill could be our generation?s Jim Thompson.? ? James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning ?Tony O?Neill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels.? ? Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart From... more...

After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life. In prose that could... more...

? Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal?.O?Neill could be our generation?s Jim Thompson.? ? James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning ?Tony O?Neill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels.? ? Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart From... more...

Tony O'Neill brings up great writing from the depths of debasement once again, finding comedy in horror - and horror in comedy. Features transcendental near death experiences. And very inappropriate food consumption. more...

"So I moved into the Mark Twain Hotel on Wilcox and Selma. I thought: This is a good omen for a writer: The Mark Twain." A Galley Beggar Single from Tony O'Neill. A story about pimps, drugs, pain and hitting bottom. Yes, it's sad. But it's also beautiful. more...